Earlier this month President Obama outlined a proposal to offer students two years of free community college tuition. The President enters the discussion about college affordability with a sizable advantage over Republicans. According to a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll*, 61{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} of Americans believe that Obama has the better ideas to help more students afford […]
Analysis
As the long march to November 2016 is underway, Hillary Clinton – Democrat heir apparent – has a very similar image rating to President Obama according to the most recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey. Not a very auspicious way to launch a campaign … hence, a delay? Hillary Clinton has experienced the peaks and […]
Two policy questions roiling Washington show that partisan bases are not always as united as their elected party leaders in D.C. would like them to be. Crosstabs from two questions on the latest NBC/WSJ survey underscore that. In both cases, Republicans and Democrats do not agree with each other, but neither base is as strongly […]
You won nothing in November. The 2014 election had no consequences for my Administration whatsoever. You may have beaten my party and members of my team in the mid-term elections, but you’ve never beaten me. And, now you never will. All this talk about compromise and working together means you do what I want, because […]
In tonight’s State of the Union, the New York Times reports that President Obama will, “use (the address) to effectively declare victory over the economic hard times that dominated his first six years in office.” The problem for the President is that while polling does indicate improving public opinion about the state of the economy, […]
